Bechterew's Disease and Receiving Social Security Disability

Arthritis is a disease that affects the joints of your body. Over 100 types of arthritis have been identified, and there are some forms of the disease that also affect your organs and other parts of your body.
Bechterews disease is a painful, chronic, degenerative inflammatory arthritis that primarily affects your spine and sacroiliac joints. It eventually results in fusion of your spine.
Bechterews disease is an autoimmune disease. This is a disease in which your own immune system mistakenly attacks your own body. In this case, Bechterews disease causes your immune system to attack your joints. In addition to this aspect of the disease, Bechterews disease is also like rheumatoid arthritis in that they are both inflammatory joint diseases.
Fortunately, Bechterews disease is a rare disease. Only about 0.25% of the population of the United States is affected by Bechterews disease. Men are affected three times as often as women by this disease.
There is no known cause of Bechterews disease, but genetic factors seem to have a part in causing this disease. People with a gene called HLA-B27 seem to have a higher risk of developing Bechterews disease.
As mentioned earlier, Bechterews disease is considered to be an autoimmune disease in which your body attacks itself. However, no one knows what causes your immune system to mistakenly do this.
There are risk factors that may increase your likelihood of getting Bechterews disease. Some of these are:

Having the gene HLA-B27

Being a man

Being in late adolescence or early adulthood.

There are several signs and symptoms that you may experience with Bechterews disease. Some of the beginning signs and symptoms of this disease are stiffness and pain in your hips and lower back. Later on, this stiffness may include your feet, knees and shoulders. In the advanced stages of Bechterews disease, signs and symptoms that you may have are:
§ Loss of appetite
§ Restricted expansion of your chest
§ Chronic stooping
§ Fatigue
§ Eye inflammation
§ Unintentional weight loss
§ Bowel inflammation.
You or a loved one may have been diagnosed with Bechterews disease. This disease and/or complications that have been brought about by it or other conditions that you have in conjunction with this disease may have resulted in the disability of you or your loved one and be the reason why you are not able to work.
If this is your situation, you may need help. You may need financial assistance.
You or your loved one may be intending to apply for the financial help that you need from the Social Security Administration by applying for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits because of the disability that has been caused by Bechterews disease and/or complications that have been caused by it or other conditions that you have in conjunction with this disease. You may have already applied and been denied by the Social Security Administration.
If you or your loved one is planning on reapplying or appealing the denial, there is an important fact that you really ought to think carefully about that you may not have heard of. The fact of the matter is that people who have a disability lawyer working for them like the one you will find at disabilitycasereview.com are approved more often than people who are not represented by a disability attorney.
Please do not wait. This is a matter of great importance to you or your loved one. Contact the disability lawyer at disabilitycasereview.com, today.

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